The Scooches sophomore album, Get Us Out Of Fearland (out under Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches) :
#2 album, #2 artist, #5 song with 6 of our songs in top 20 on the International Folk Music DJs Radio chart!

San Diego Troubadour
“…it’s unlike anything most listeners will find elsewhere.”

Rambles
It underscores, too, how sounds from another time can be renewed and re-imagined, by creative minds and right hands, in the present moment. Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches are ridiculously fun.

London Times
“Unfailingly high-spirited.”

London Times 
“There’s no point in trying to pin a label on an extrovert American band, led by guitarist, Nick Russo, who set out to cover so many bases from hot jazz to folk, blues and Big Easy funk…. unfailingly high-spirited. Purists will hate it. Everyone else will have a good time”

The New York Music Daily
“…their sound is totally retro – yet completely in the here and now, another case where the old is new again”

New York City’s chart-topping band electrifies audiences with an eclectic mix of Roaring ‘20s, Global Folk, blues, gospel, New Orleans jazz, Americana, and more. Curated sets of toe-tapping, hand-clapping music leave audiences with no choice but to dance along. The Scooches’ performances are like master classes in musicology that quite simply embody joy and excellent musicianship.

One of the only groups to bring a Gullah-Geechee element into the folk world. The band also plays folk, country, 20s/30s, music of New Orleans, blues, old-time music, and roots music.